How to setup a basic authentication for Elasticsearch?

Elastic Stack Elasticsearch
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I have a docker image of elasticsearch, version=7.0.1, I used the command to run the image

docker run -d -p 9200:9200 -p 9301:9301 --name elastic_search -e "discovery.type=single-node" -e "xpack.security.enabled=true" -e "ELASTICSEARCH_USERNAME=john" -e "ELASTICSEARCH_PASSWORD=deer" -v elastic_search_volume:/usr/share/elasticsearch/data docker.elastic.co/elasticsearch/elasticsearch:7.0.1

Without porviding any credentials for my curl command, curl localhost:9200

I got the following output,

$ curl localhost:9200
% Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                             Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100   508  100   508    0     0  26736      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 28222{
"name" : "f1a397cdc93b",
"cluster_name" : "docker-cluster",
"cluster_uuid" : "sBiiYUlsSM6e-RzJJcTvvg",
"version" : {
"number" : "7.0.1",
"build_flavor" : "default",
"build_type" : "docker",
"build_hash" : "e4efcb5",
"build_date" : "2019-04-29T12:56:03.145736Z",
"build_snapshot" : false,
"lucene_version" : "8.0.0",
"minimum_wire_compatibility_version" : "6.7.0",
"minimum_index_compatibility_version" : "6.0.0-beta1"
},
"tagline" : "You Know, for Search"
}

Although, I have provided the credentials for the docker image while starting in the form of environmental variables, still I am able to access the database without providing the credentials.
Even for the Kibana, without any configuration, still its able to access the database.

Can anyone help me on this?
Thanks

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The problem is here: 7.0.1

With this old version, you need a commercial license.
Just use the latest version we released instead, 7.5.0 and you should be all set.
At least use 7.1.x to have access to this free security feature.

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Thanks @dadoonet. Can you please share some information such that I can setup a basic username and password to the elasticsearch container.

If I update my Es version, is the docker command is correct for setting up the username which I was doing earlier?

Thanks

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I think you need to use ELASTIC_PASSWORD instead.
I shared an example (docker-compose) here: Create user in elasticsearch

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@dadoonet Thanks a lot, it worked. I wasn't able to find any documentation for the same, which cause such delay.

Thanks.

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